耀州瓷 (Yàozhōu Cí)
Yaozhou celadon (耀州瓷) is the northern counterpart to Longquan's southern celadon — a distinctly different tradition from the same ceramic family, produced in Tongchuan (formerly Yaozhou), Shaanxi since the Tang Dynasty. Yaozhou's defining technical contribution is its carved and impressed decoration (刻花 kè huā) — intricate floral and animal designs carved into the clay body at the leather-hard stage with a slanted carving tool, producing angled facets that catch glaze pooling differently at the carved edges, creating a lighter and darker tonal variation within the olive-green glaze. The carving technique uses a distinctive slanted blade held at 45° — different from the perpendicular carving used in most ceramic traditions — which produces the characteristic faceted rather than rounded relief.
Risk level: Endangered · China National ICH List (2008)
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